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Forget asteroids, mining on Earth is hard enough
The latest miner to smack hard into the realities of mining a difficult environment is Canada’s Nautilus Minerals, which has gone into administration
16 September 2019 - 17:19
There is bold talk of mining asteroids, but the technology to mine in hostile environments on earth is proving this to be just that — talk.
A website called Interesting Engineering noted asteroid mining has been spoken about by “famed futurist Peter Diamandis, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, and financial firm Goldman Sachs”...
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